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Two emergency fire trucks at LaGuardia airport sprayed water haphazardly in the air today over the President-elect Donald Trump's plane. It's called a "water cannon salute". And I can't think of a more fitting picture of waste for a man whose entire life can be summed up by decadence and empty gestures.

Predicting the future is near impossible -- but that doesn‘t stop us all from having a red hot go. Human beings have been predicting the future since the beginning of history and the results range from the hilarious to the downright uncanny.

One thing all future predictions have in common: they‘re rooted in our current understanding of how the world works. It‘s difficult to escape that mindset. We have no idea how technology will evolve, so our ideas are connected to the technology of today.

Two emergency fire trucks at LaGuardia airport sprayed water haphazardly in the air today over the President-elect Donald Trump's plane. It's called a "water cannon salute". And I can't think of a more fitting picture of waste for a man whose entire life can be summed up by decadence and empty gestures.